(Cue the solar panel salesman to come on and say Im wrong here like they always do, and try to lecture me about the market Im an expert in when they are thousands of miles away)

Hours and hours of lecture doesn't make for a very appealing event IMO7.

I've heart Curt Davis on this site talk about the trainer Alan Cowgill as having good material, though I have no personal experience with him.Sorry, didn't mean to post this yet, will finish thought later, but you don't want to lecture the type 2 investor on stock market returns, for example, or you risk sounding like a novice.

I agree adequate training is a MAJOR issue...while at a local branch (not ours) settling a parents' estate/RE property issue the 'kid' (who graduated political science 6 months ago, but was fully trained by the Bank), began to lecture me on refinancing some of the free & clear properties we held.

The OnDemand seemed to be a nice compromise - lectures, but at my own pace - which is slow. 

Anyhow, no lectures necessary, I am switching to written leases in the new year!

You admitted you have not read the thread and yet you are lecturing both sides based on suppositions and assumptions that are, shall we say, representative of your incomplete knowledge of what has transpired in this thread?

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They are not specifically named by the act but a lecturer I saw warned "if it quacks like a duck, it is a duck."

Understanding taxes, since you mentioned compounding interest - that means you can't have "tax leakage" in anything you do, nothing, its a way of life, do it now so you don't get spoiled...Google "John Malone" and go to the Video of him giving a lecture at Stanford.